Feel the feelings and drop the story.
PEMA CHODRONDon’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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